1. Being Human in the Days/Daze of Big Data by Jeremy Pitt (AI, Technology and Society)

2.  Straw Wars by Seth Stevenson (society, recycling, Slate)

3. What does ‘living fully’ mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense (society, The Guardian)

4. Science is deeply imaginative: why is this treated as a secret? by Tom McLeish (science, aeon)

Bonus: This heated fake keyboard was designed to fool your cat (via BoingBoing)